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Tinderbox

Try Bumble, try Tinder, try Plenty of Fish

Reach for the crumbs of someone else’s desperation, and avoid your own

Follow the trail left by someone else’s heartbreak, and careful to cover yours

Leave the baggage in the bathtub

And search the bed for landmines


Stand for one night, and tie the no-strings around your wrists

Give away a piece of yourself to a stranger, and come away unsatisfied

Play your own body like a violin

Conduct the orchestra of lust

And retune your heartstrings when the pegs loosen


Find yourself in the embrace of someone else’s arms

Define your worth by their appraisal, and forget your own value

Give up your autonomy for the sake of the drugged high of love

Stab yourself in the heart

Give them the tools of your own destruction

And keep trying for love as the world burns around you

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